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- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
the team plans to conduct several field studies in real-world office environments as well as further experimental studies on digital collaboration. In the meantime, "Facts... View Details
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Health Care - Faculty & Research
too often, when graduates of these programs enter the workforce, they find themselves unequipped to meet the challenges for innovation of 21st century health care. December 2014 Article No Margin, No Mission? A Field Experiment on... View Details
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Events - Business History
scholarship contributed to important works of legal and business history on the evolution of the corporate form, the influence of corporate actors on public regulation, and the importance of social science research on regulatory choices. Since then, the View Details
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Understanding Customers
In conventional business case studies, protagonists almost never have the option of stepping back to seek a new understanding of the customer. But to be effective in practice, managers need both the self-assurance and ability to initiate and pursue, with rigor and... View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
than others who read a few extra lines describing the person’s professional failures. The results of two similar online studies also yielded an important insight for successful people who share their failures: Colleagues have no less... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Amager Bakke: A Look into the Future of Waste Incineration
In January 2023, Professors Willy Shih and Mike Toffel led more than 40 HBS MBA students on site visits to witness the energy transition and innovative sustainable production activities throughout Denmark and the Netherlands, in their new Immersive View Details
- 13 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions
loan officers were more judicious about issuing loans when their bonus incentives were tied to whether the loans performed well. More surprisingly, they found that incentives actually have the power to distort loan officers' perceptions of how a loan will perform. An... View Details
- 18 May 2010
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First Look: May 18
I. Norton Abstract Three studies demonstrate how culture shapes the contents of gender stereotypes, such that men are perceived as possessing more of whatever traits are culturally valued. In Study 1,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Nov 2016
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First Look - November 1, 2016
reviews of handbags) with studies conducted in the field and laboratory, we establish the functional alibi effect and show that it is mediated by guilt and more likely to occur when the luxury purchase is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
of the Harvard Project on the Workforce and a non-resident Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute. He studies issues related to employment and income polarization and the relationship between talent and economic... View Details
- 28 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research, February 28
Strategies By: Seamans, Robert, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
have studied the issue in multiple industries, including the equally competitive fields of sports and investment banking. After examining the careers of more than 1,000 Wall Street analysts, for instance,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley
Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa Alwaalan (Endeavor Saudi Arabia), and... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
- 08 Aug 2006
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First Look: August 8, 2006
positive recency in choices. At the same time, there remains an overall consistency between choices and assessments. A third study validates the results in a field study. The results show that, after a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
came from a sample of customers.” While the recent emergence of ChatGPT has reignited fears that machines may replace humans in the workplace, the results of this study don’t necessarily mean that AI is going to gut marketing departments,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
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Getting Started - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
Although some instructors seem to be "born" case teachers, for most it is learned over time through careful study and practice. A critical first step for new case teachers is attitudinal: a willingness to become learners themselves.... View Details
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
property come into being and inflect material and ideological life. The study of finance as a concept constructed by law and naturalized by economics is one theme that the new history of American capitalism emphasizes and that exemplifies... View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 18 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 18
account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 22 Nov 2023
- News
So You Want to Join a Startup
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: At age 29, Gus Bessalel (MBA 1988) decided to leave consulting for a decidedly less glamorous life as an entrepreneur, working out of a storage room in the bowels of an underground hotel... View Details
- 01 Aug 2022
- What Do You Think?
Does Religious Belief Affect Organizational Performance?
performance data, and then performing field studies of a subsample of the firms identified to explain why some organizations with strong cultures had good and some had poor performance. "The team found that... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett